It has been argued that bureaucratic management systems were definitely non effective if organizations were to innovate. As an alternative it has been argued that only non-bureaucratic type of management systems i.e “organic” or “adhocratic” management systems were conducive to innovation. In this article, a case study of a highly innovative firm suggests that the alternative is not as straight...

The notion of the criminalization state is paradoxical. On one hand, idea that ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’ might shed light on potentially criminal behaviour state-officials. other, assumption legal rules are general and anonymous, they apply identically to everybody (and allows defining these elites as criminals), in its contemporary form linked bureaucratic rule itself. In this comme...

The United States currently has no comprehensive, integrated legislative or regulatory framework to manage the permitting of imported biological control agents. There are unresolved questions of whether the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has jurisdiction over parasitoids that are not plant pests; there are differences in protocol between weed and arthropod biocontrol ag...

The United States currently has no comprehensive, integrated legislative or regulatory framework to manage the permitting of imported biological control agents. There are unresolved questions of whether the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has jurisdiction over parasitoids that are not plant pests; there are differences in protocol between weed and arthropod biocontrol ag...

The study of bureaucracy is the analysis of how administrative agencies function as organizations within a governmental system. The study includes interinstitutional relationships with democratic institutions such as chief executives, legislatures, or the judiciary as well as intrainstitu-tional activities concerned with explaining the organizational structure and behavior of administrative age...

The process of automating citizen-government interactions using information and communication technologies (ICTs) needs to be analyzed as a sociotechnical information processing system. During the process of improving the enforcement of rules via automation, which is clearly the best way to render transparency, socio-cultural factors need to be considered as they play a very important role. Thi...

2 Abstract Recent research on financial market development has focused on the nature of the legal system. The law and finance literature, however, exclusively focuses on the abuse of management power as a major cause of shareholder expropriation. We examine the role of the administrative capability of the state in providing and guaranteeing the institutional foundations for securities developme...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the issues involved in managerial control and managerial identity in relation to the idea of a post-bureaucratic organization. In addition it introduces the papers in this special issue. Design/methodology/approach The paper identifies the increasing complexity of issues of managerial control and managerial identity that arise from ...

The disintegration of the state socialist regimes in Eastern Europe cannot be seen as an isolated phenomenon, for it is only the final and most dramatic manifestation of a process which has been unfolding over the past two decades throughout the world. The popular rejection of centralist bureaucratic and authoritarian regimes has been a common feature of political developments in both East and ...

This paper examines the relationship between the legislature and the public administration in postwar Italy (understood as the period from about 1948 through 1994). Italian public administration is normally characterized as badly designed and ine±cient, and government performance is usually classed as poor. I argue by contrast that bureaucratic ine±ciency, excessive legislation, and widespread ...